Services
- Advise on projects for all types of residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural buildings.
- Prepare feasibility studies, estimates, drawings and specifications for building works.
- Make applications for approval under the Building Regulations, Town and Country Planning Acts etc.
- Appear as expect witness at appeals and inquiries.
- Administer and supervise building contracts.
- Provide services for the care and restoration of buildings of special architectural or historic interest.
- Negotiate grant aid.
- Provide overall project management services.
- Carry out structural and condition surveys of all types of buildings.
- Assess replacement cost of buildings for fire insurance purposes.
- Advise on Building Legislation, including fire precautions and Health & Safety at Work requirements.
- Prepare and negotiate Schedules of Condition or Dilapidation.
- Advise on building, party wall and boundary disputes.
- Act as Arbitrator in disputes relating to Building Work.
- Prepare, implement and manage planned maintenance programmes.
- Advise on energy conservation, thermal and sound insulation.
- Prepare measured and level surveys of buildings and their sites.
- Undertake mortgage surveys for financial lending institutions.
- Act as employers agents to monitor development.
- Analyse costs-in-use and capial costs.
- CDM co-ordinator duties under the CDM (2007) Regulations.
Project Moitoring Services
Action
- Administer the technical funding contract
- Advise on Building Legislation, including fire precautions and Health & Safety at Work requirements
- Complete a technical audit (design)
- Contract Administration audit
- Determine worth of design (scheme evaluation)
- Issue regular progress statements
- Monetary validation
- Progress monitor
- Provide single point of contact
- Provide specialist disciplines as appropriate
- To complete an expenditure profile audit and review
- Validate design changes
Aims
- Ensure value for money
- Ensure compliance with client’s brief
- Satisfy sponsors criteria
- To achive constructional quality
Objectives
- Act as funding bodies agent
- Oversee procurement from inception to completion